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The intensity, the anger, the Maoist weirdness: if they could, they’d have killed him.

Eh?

ah, 5. 5 sixes in a row.

well done Jos Buttler :)

how many 6s in a row?

One in the counter that has the shit knives on for everyone else to use

If I was sufficiently organised, this is what I would have.

As it is, I have mainly functional knives and accept a level of jeopardy.

OH bent the tip on opening a jar

oof.

Fortunately my OH's favourite knife is a £10 Kitchen Devil vegetable knife. So long as that's within reach, most other things are fairly safe.

yeah, could be that's what i need to do - just use it and accept that it won't stay perfect.

tbh i find the fineness of the tip a bit scary.

I'm quite geeky about cooking stuff, and few years back (after reading this thread), convinced myself that what I really wanted was a hand made Japanese knife - bought as a present to myself a Ryky Tran Gyuto - clad carbon steel, trad Japanese handle. It was discounted as the handle had a slight scratch on it (but still twice the price of any other knife I've bought).

https://burrfectionstore.com/en-gb/collections/ryky-tran

anyway - i hardly ever use it. It sits in a drawer and every now and then I prep some veg with it, wipe it down and put it away again. I just can't get used to it as an everyday knife.

So I'd be tempted by the Wustoff / Henckells / Zwilling route - a couple of these are what I use every day.

Union is about the best I've found that's usually in stock in supermarkets (ok, usually in stock in Waitrose).

i'm happy to send the rest of the packet on if you want them, i've poured about 50g into the grinder - call it a beans for karma swap!

double post.

James Gourmet Chapin.

Not one for fans of lighter roasts. Tried it as a macchiato and an espresso. Preferred as a milk drink.

It's on the way to a traditional Italian espresso, earthy and a touch bitter, with lemony acidity.

I could probably dial it in slightly better to reduce the bitterness.

Overall, worth trying if you like a fairly traditional espresso profile. It isn't really for me to be honest.

Happy to continue my impromptu bean swap scheme of anyone fancies trying it.

Roast is a bit darker than I'm used to:

almost everything i read prior to buying an espresso machine said "don't skimp on the grinder".

i went with a eureka mignon and it has been fairly low faff.

Further exploration of JG:

one of our cats caught a fledgling robin. i'm a bit distraught.

i realise that i have to accept this as being a consequence of having cats that are allowed out. it's still upsetting.

they are not generally big hunters and we don't have a cat flap so mostly they are indoors, and mostly they catch mice when they catch anything.

it's all very irrational on my part.

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they do look massively banging - i have beef fat envy!

awesome - we all agree :)

next up - the fuel duty accelerator made my driving Bentley unaffordable.

Or would have done if it hadn't been frozen for god knows how long.

It's about fairness and not giving a tax break when the state sector is in crisis.

yes, this sums it up imo.

i don't get this argument about "you can definitely afford more".

who gives a shit if whoever "you" is can or can't afford it?

if VAT makes it unaffordable - oh well. the state education system is still there.

without the ACC deciding it needs to slow me down to the truck speed

This only happens in my car when undertaking a slower vehicle in the lane to the right. Slower vehicles in the left hand lane just get breezed past. Not sure if that's what you mean?

obvs would be the other way around in France and I guess ACC on a UK car would be a bit of a pita in this circumstance, I wonder if it's configurable?

Varies

Many independent schools include access to the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) as part of their reward package

Yes. The more marginalised the private education sector becomes, the better.

It's really expensive? Ok, that's a good thing.

prep schools are 9k a year ish so on the border of affordability